What qualifies.
Only the public-facing part of a project is fundable. The test is the Open Gift Standard: is it open to anyone who walks up?
Qualifies
- Art anyone can experience
- Workshops and learning open to all
- Health, safety, and sanctuary spaces
- Services open to the whole city
- Kids' and family programs
- Accessibility infrastructure
- Spiritual and reflective spaces open to everyone
Qualifies with conditions
Shared equipment that serves both a public gift and the camp itself — shade, power, water systems — is fundable for the public-benefit share of its use, itemized line by line in the budget.
Usually not
Anything whose main beneficiaries are the camp's own members, even if the public occasionally benefits.
Never
- Alcohol
- Tickets
- Dues
- Member infrastructure
- Members-only spaces
- Payments to members
- Anything sold or bartered